On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 02:04:41PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > On Aug 18 03:58:03, Jacob Meuser wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:43:45PM +0100, Peter wrote: > > > Jan Stary wrote: > > > >On Aug 17 16:06:05, Peter Kay - Syllopsium wrote: > > > > > > > >I wouldn't even consider converting something that is readily available > > > >in digital form. The analog VHS material is not available elsewhere, > > > >and is slowly deteriorating on these tapes. > > > > > > > >>Otherwise : > > > >> > > > >>1) Find decent hardware (not TV cards) that can capture compressed > > > >>video > > > >>in real time (2nd hand ebay may help). > > > >> > > > > > > > >You mean UNcompressed, right? > > > No, I mean compressed. The tape is analogue, it's then captured to a > > > compressed digital format with the > > > capture card offloading the task from the CPU. It's entirely possible to > > > work directly with compressed > > > video and it'll be much lighter on CPU and I/O than capturing in raw > > > format. Ideally you want > > > hardware that can capture in your chosen format, so that lengthy > > > transcoding time is not required > > > and (if you're fussy - doesn't really apply in the case of VHS) there's > > > no quality loss in the final product. > > > > fwiw, I was capturing/encoding to mpeg4 with ffmpeg and a bktr. in > > realtime, 3 years ago, on a not so fast machine, with OpenBSD. couldn't > > quite do full DVD quality in realtime though. wouldn't surprise me at > > all if it can be done with a decent machine today. > > This is an Atom 1.6 GHz with 1GB RAM; and I'm looking at the (cheapo) > Leadtek WinFast VC100 XP (as an altermative to the VCD -> DV camera > route mentioned earlier); bktr(4) does not specifically mention this > card, but it has the Conexant Fusion 878A chip; did anyone use it > successfully?
pretty much any bt8x8/fusion878 card should work for composite input. what might not work on such cards is the tuner, but you don't need the tuner for capturing from the inputs. -- jake...@sdf.lonestar.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
